Nine Latham Attorneys Named 2025 Rising Stars
The firm garners the most honorees in Law360 contest recognizing accomplishments of lawyers under age 40.
Samuel Pape is a leading international dispute resolution lawyer. As a strategic advisor and trial advocate, he handles bet-the-company cases in international commercial and investment treaty arbitration, as well as in litigation.
Drawing on 15 years of experience, he represents multinational companies, private equity funds, State parties, and financial institutions in disputes across a range of sectors including energy, mining, banking, and technology. His experience includes acting in M&A, shareholder, commercial and financial disputes, as well as in transnational tort class actions.
Widely recognized as a leading dispute resolution lawyer of his generation, Samuel has acted in over 50 international arbitration and litigation proceedings. He is ranked as a Next Generation Partner by The Legal 500 UK 2025 and a Future Leader in Arbitration by Who’s Who Legal / Lexology 2025.
Samuel is bilingual in English and French and also speaks Spanish and Portuguese. He frequently handles disputes in francophone jurisdictions as well as in Latin America, and is noted for having “a fine record in the region” by The Legal 500 Latin America.
An active member of the international arbitration community, Samuel serves on the executive board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and the editorial board of the European Investment Law and Arbitration Review. He is frequently invited to lecture at universities and to speak on panels on international arbitration.
Through his pro bono efforts, Samuel is committed to advancing access to justice, serving as a trustee of the Free Representation Unit, a London-based charity providing free legal representation to those in need.
Samuel's experience includes representing:
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham
The firm garners the most honorees in Law360 contest recognizing accomplishments of lawyers under age 40.
Firm honored by Law360 for advising startups, financial institutions, VCs, digital asset and Web3 participants, and corporations on their most innovative and complex transactions, investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters.
A Latham international arbitration team earned the accolade for their second ICSID victory for the Republic of Colombia in a US$180 million dispute related to the páramos mining ban.